3. Build your survey

Use the Form Builder to add questions, options, and display conditions just as indicated in the Beginner Tutorial.

The survey described above would look like this:

It is important to keep things short! Specifically, when asking a multiple choice question you want to ensure that the text of the question, plus the text of all the possible answers fits in one message. If it is too long, it may be broken into multiple messages. Messages are not always assembled in the right order so it advisable not to have them break up.

There are certain words that cannot be used to test surveys. ex. SURVEY, START.

4. Test your survey

Using the keyword you can try out the survey multiple times. To test the survey using the keyboard, text the system using the format: #start keyword

When completing your survey keep in mind:

You can indicate a choice by replying with either the text of that choice or by simply putting the number of that choice (i.e. you can either reply with 2 or I felt fine. CommCare Messaging will ignore changes in spacing/capitalization, but not in spelling)

If your question is a Checkbox response you can reply with multiple numbers separated by a space. (i.e. in the example above you could indicate both Clinic too far and Was busy by replying: 3, 4)

If you reply with something that is not an acceptable reponse (i.e. there are 4 choices and you reply with "5") CommCare Messaging will send back a generic message that the response could not be understood, and that they should try again.